> Sections were added to tiddlers fairly late on in the development of
> TiddlyWiki (release 2.2 or 2.3, I can't remember exactly which
> release). Generally when adding things we add the minimal useful
> implementation, so we added sections
I see. That's somewhat I expected.
> do you have a real use-case for a
> tree structure, or is it just a "nice to have"?
Well, this appears from time to time, especially in those wikis which
I use to describe complex things (tiddlers are rather large in such
documents). One example is a document where I describe TiddlyWiki --
from time to time there appear content which shouldn't be in any
section and the section where it actually is contained should be
"aggregated" into another tiddler; the need of transclusion with
subsections occurs more rarely. I'll provide the most interesting
examples if I remember; however, in all those cases I split the
content into another tiddler and transclude it.
Afterall, I'd say that it's much more important to have a system like
MasterIncludesPlugin which works (in all browsers and is supported)
[1] as a system of "configuration inheritance" among all TW documents
because in this case plugins like PasteUp, QuickEdit ("split" button)
and NestedSliders solve such "workflow problems" at once.
As for sections, they would be almost excessive (and if there appear a
plugin for compact syntax for tabs macro, they'll be even closer to be
excessive -- the only thing is some plugins which introduce further
use of sections -- like Eric's SectionLinksPlugin or
FoldHeadingsPlugin). I think so because I there's only two usages of
section transclusion: from the same tiddler (for sliders
NestedSlidersPlugin seems to be good enough, but I don't know anything
like this for tabs) and from another tiddler (practically can be
replaced with transclusion of tiddlers).
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/cb78432ce93fdc6f
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